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The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; French: L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage. The Canadian Encyclopedia is a non-partisan, non-political initiative of a not-for-profit ...
A reader in Canadian civics (1935). The 1944 edition of 186 pages was authorised by the Minister of Education for Ontario [note 2] Encyclopedia of Canada (1935 – 1937, six volumes), later forming the core of the Encyclopedia Canadiana [note 3] Notes on military writing for English-Canadian soldiers (1943) A first book of Canadian history (1946)
As a philanthropist, he served on the board of the Toronto Conservatory of Music; [1] endowed the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards, [1] one of Canada's most prominent literary awards for playwrights; and created the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. [1]
The program was created in partnership with Parks Canada, Canadian Geographic Education, and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Passages Canada was a national storytelling program that invited newcomers and established Canadians alike to share their personal experiences of identity, heritage, and immigration, in order to foster cross-cultural ...
In 1873, John A. Macdonald (First Prime Minister of Canada) created the North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to help police the Northwest Territories. [134] Specifically the Mounties were to assert Canadian sovereignty to prevent possible American encroachments into the area. [134]
He was born in Chelsea, England on September 6, 1817. He was the third son of John Galt, a Scottish novelist, and Elizabeth (née Tilloch) Galt. [1] [2] His mother was the only daughter of Alexander Tilloch, the journalist and inventor who founded the Philosophical Magazine.
Sir Sandford Fleming House (1866–1871), Brunswick St., Halifax, Nova Scotia In 1827, Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland [2] to Andrew and Elizabeth Fleming. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed as a surveyor and in 1845, [3] at the age of 18, he immigrated with his older brother David to colonial Canada.
Sotirios "Sam" Panopoulos (Greek: Σωτήριος Πανόπουλος; 20 August 1934 – 8 June 2017) was a Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman, credited as the inventor of Hawaiian pizza. [1] [2]